There was a discussion on this list and in the working group on break-inside, and there is a resolution to add separate control for column and page breaks. Stay tuned for next spec update.
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From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Christian Hujer
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 5:59 AM
To: www-style@w3.org
Subject: [css3-multicol] missing column-break-inside
Hello community,
in [CSS3COL] I miss a column-break-inside property.
In "6. Column breaks", [CSS3COL] specifies: "The ‘page-break-inside’ property can be used to indicate that a column break should be avoided inside the element."
There might be occasions where a column-break is acceptable while a page-break is not.
Suggestion:
Name: column-break-inside
Value: auto | avoid | page
Initial: page
Applies to: block-level-elements
Inherited: no
Percentages: N/A
Media: visual
Computed value: as specified.
The semantics of the value 'page' are to inherit what's specified by the page-break-inside property.
The semantics of the values auto and avoid are those of page-break-inside just applied to columns.
References:
[CSS3COL] <http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-multicol-20070606/>
Kind regards
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. Christian Hujer mailto:cher@riedquat.de http://www.riedquat.de/
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